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dfreelon / fb_scrape_public

Scrapes posts and comments from public Facebook pages.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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User data #6

Closed hemangpar closed 6 years ago

hemangpar commented 6 years ago

@dfreelon Suppose I am scraping a facebook page data and I want the user's data who have posted on that page which I am scraping, like userid, name, age, location etc, can we?

dfreelon commented 6 years ago

Most of that info other than names is private, unless you are personally friends with the user, in which case you need to use an access token generated from your personal account (as opposed to from an app). However, in many cases, gender can be inferred from a person's given name and broad ethnic categories from the family name...